Update Notes 4.7 October 21st, 2015

NEW!!
The Palace of Cetriss
Continue the story of the magic of the Lotus in the Palace of Cetriss where challenging new encounters await those ready to face Tier 6! Raid your way through the Palace and face menacing enemies to collect new gear, new loot, and make new memories!
Halloween is back!
Enjoy By the Light of the Moon and Festival of Set events again this year, and then aid the priests of Asura against a new foe within the underbelly of Tarantia: The Shambling Plague!

GENERAL

• Fixed an error where the Hyrkanian Camel mount could only be used with advanced riding. Basic riding is now the only requirement.
• Fixed a treasure chest in the Coast of Ardashir which was not providing any loot or achievement under certain conditions.
• The sound has been removed from the Vanir War Horn buff.
• The set bonus effects from Tier 5 gear have been removed from the armor sets. The bonuses have been transferred to the rune system as major runes, they can be purchased as rank 5 bonuses or rank 8 bonuses (if you have the achievement for completing all of tier 5) from the Tier 5 raid vendors in Dragon's Spine.
• An additional weapon drop has been added to both the Vistrix and Champion of the Honorguard encounters.
• The number of static Priests of Set in the pvp enabled version of Khemi for the Festival of Set has been significantly lowered.
• Added an icon for Portent Relics to the Token UI.

QUESTS
Conarch Village

• By the Light of the Moon - Fixed an issue which could cause the northern barricade to block progress if the player had already completed part of the quest.

Dragon's Spine

• A new questline for the Palace of Cetriss can be picked up from the Aquilonian Envoy in Khemi.
• Cleansing of the Kan - Resolved an issue that prevented quest turn in.

Thoth-Amon's Stronghold
The Risen Guardians

• The ramping damage on Incinerate stacks has been reduced.
• The Blood Frenzy NPC buff has been reduced.

Hathor-Ka

• Miasma's cast timer has been increased slightly.
• The Harbinger of Death has had his damage output reduced slightly.

Arbanus

• The cone angle on Carve has been reduced.
• Blood Draw's cast timer has been increased slightly.

Master Gyas

• Butcher damage has been reduced slightly.

Favoured of Louhi

• The Phylacteries have had their damage output reduced slightly.

Keeper of Artifacts

• The Keeper of Artifacts will no longer use his mace and its relevant spellset, removing the random element to the encounter.

Thoth-Amon

• The Overlord add will no longer cast Demonic Puppet.
• The Obliterator add will no longer cast Demonic Eruption.
• The number of corpses on the floor has been significantly reduced.

The Temple of Erlik
General

• Lowered the health on all trash NPCs.
• Lowered the DPS on the Lector, Enforcer and Minion of Erlik NPCs.
• Removed immunity to most CC effects from the trash NPCs.

Archfiend of Gore

• Only one quadrant at a time will ever be selected to fill with blood.
• The Deicide spell has been removed.
• The severity of the debuffs received when drawing the buffs off of the Archfiend has been significantly reduced.
• The Archfiend of Gore has had his damage output reduced slightly.

Arch Lector Zaal

• Zaal has had his damage output reduced slightly.
• Zaal will no longer drop Hearts of Tammuz.

The Bat of Nergal

• The required number of parasite jumps has been reduced to 6, down from 12.
• All relevant spells and mechanics tied to the Heart of Tammuz have been removed.
• Dimensional Aftershock has been removed.
• The Bat of Nergal has had his damage output reduced slightly.

The Jade Citadel
General Sheng

• Runner health has been reduced slightly.
• Runners now have a significant snare applied to them when they spawn.
• The Storm of Arrows spell/mechanic has been removed.
• The Volley spell damage has been reduced slightly.
• The Aflame spell damage has been reduced.

The Imp

• The Imp has had his health pool reduced significantly.

The Zodiac

• No more than 2 spells will ever need to be countered per Avatar.
• The damage frequency on the Emperor's room-wide damage spells has been reduced.
• There is no longer a time limit to summoning an Avatar after a previous Avatar has been killed.
• The Symbols are now stationary at the room's main cardinal points.
• The general enrage timer has been removed.

Emperor Yah Chieng

• The Bone Golems will now always spawn in the same location.
• The Emperor's clones have had their damage output reduced significantly.
• The Emperor has had his damage output reduced.
• The Bone Golems have had their damage output reduced.
• Bone Golems will now spawn 50% slower.

The Memory Cloud

• Reduced the amount of global trash.
• Teleport portals that lead between memory locations are now usable simultaneously.

The Entity

• The buff available to raiders after defeating a Mental Projection has had its potency increased significantly.
• Killing Mental Projections now deals direct damage to the Entity.

ACHIEVEMENTS

• "The Disloyal One" should be awarded correctly in all cases.
• Altered the Master and Veteran timed achievements for the following dungeons:
  
  • Caravan Raiders Hideout Unchained
  • The Iron Tower
  • The Den of the Crowmen
  • The Chamber of Lost Dreams